Sexist+Speech

Cultural Identifiers []

What does it mean? We believe it means how a culture or group may want to be recognized, acknowledged or talked about.

What are some examples of preferred terms? Similarly, the terms marriage, husband, and wife refer to some heterosexual relationships and exclude others; in most of the world they also exclude gay and lesbian relationships. Its recommended to use the place of worship rather than calling it a church. .

Race & Nationality- You would call native american, native Americans instead of Indians because its more respectful. African Americans, African Americans instead of blacks. Hispanic's, Hispanic's instead of Mexicans.

Affectionate Orientation-Gay and lesbian refer to a lifestyle and not only to sexual orientation. Gay as a noun, although widely used, may prove to be offensive in some contexts.

Age-Older person is preferred to be called elder, elderly, senior, or senior citizen, There are times, of course, when you need to refer to a persons age group, but most of the time you don't-in much the same way that gender, race, and affectional orientation terms are usually irrelevant. . Sex-Generally the term girl should be used only to refer to very young females and is equivalent to boy. Neither term should be used for people older than 13 or 14. Girl is never used to refer to a grown women, and boy is never used to refer to people in blue collar positions,as it use to be. Lady may be perceived as an insult because it shadows the stereotype of a prim and proper women. Women or young women would be preferred.